Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This article by essayist and historian Germán Arciniegas discusses José Domingo Rodríguez’s sculptural work. In it, Arciniegas provides an introductory overview of the emerging Colombian art scene, mentioning specifically poets León de Greiff [...]

This document is the catalogue to the Salón de Arte Moderno held in the exhibition hall of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in November 1957. In addition to an introduction, the catalogue contains a list with basic information (style, dimension, [...]

Published in the catalogue to the exhibition commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Primer Salón de Arte Moderno, this text by Sylvia Juliana Suárez presents the idea, process and results of a curatorial and editorial project formulated by [...]

In this article, Javier Arango Ferrer reviews and criticizes the IX Salón de Artistas Colombianos [Ninth Salon of Colombian Artists] that opened at the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá on August 7, 1952. Participants in the event included [...]

In the introduction to his book “Nueve artistas colombianos” [Nine Colombian Artists], poet and art critic Jorge Zalamea explains the objectives of the publication, and discusses the Colombian art scene of the early forties. Zalamea starts out [...]

“La escultura en la Bienal” [Sculpture at the Biennial] by Spanish critic Ricardo Gullón, is a chapter in the book published in conjunction with the First Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte [First Spanish-American Art Biennial]. The first part of [...]

The Colombian art critic Roberto Suárez begins his essay by stating that modern civilization is in a “twilight” period. He criticizes the rapid artistic, social, and technical changes of the modern era, and describes Futurism, Cubism, and [...]

In “De cómo se expresa en arte el pueblo colombiano” [On How Colombians Express Themselves in Art] (1934), the Colombian intellectual Luis López de Mesa reviews the history of Colombian art during the colonial period. He describes this period [...]

In this article, poet and critic Luis Vidales expresses his position on the debate surrounding abstract and figurative art, a polemic central to Colombian art at the time. First, Vidales argues that certain concepts have been poorly defined in [...]